A expansão da educação superior como política de inclusão social: estudo de caso da Universidade Federal do Ceará/Campus Sobral

Abstract

The following study has a link with the Public Higher Education Policies, from the Professional Master’s Degree program in Public Policy and Management of Higher Education, from the Federal University of the State of Ceará. The purpose in approaching the theme “expansion of the higher education and social mobility” is to bring new elements to debate higher education in Brazil, especially in the last decade, although in order to understand all the expansion as well as internalization of Brazilian education process, we have leant in the early days over the history of education in our country. The centralization of the work occurs in education policies that are implemented, especially in the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010), highlighting legislations, programs and actions that contributed to this expansion. It is a case study: Federal University of Ceará, the first federal university of Ceará and precursor of higher education internalization in the State. The chosen advanced campus was from the city of Sobral, 238km away from the capital, Fortaleza. It uses as methodologies: documentary research, exploratory research, in a quantitative and qualitative approach, and the multivariate data analysis. With the analysis of data about the socioeconomic profile of students and their parents, besides the precedence of the education of these students and their family income, we could identify that most of the students from the campus of Sobral are from Northeast, from the capital in the State of Ceará, Fortaleza, and the medicine course is the one that has more students with higher family income. However, most part of the students from the campus of Sobral belongs to the sub-class. These and other surveyed data give us an outline to assess if the internalization, as well as education policies of higher education, is attending to its biggest goal, which is promoting democracy at this level of education.